Chesney
and Katy are young and broke but they're in love, ladies and
gentlemen and Katy's even got a little Chesney bun in th'oven
too. It'll come out with red hair and whinge. They're
worried about how they'll cope with a kid and no cash but they're
already managing to look after the giant dog Schmeichel with a
bucket load of dog food twice a day so they're clearly managing
finances and feeding just right. Having a baby's going to be a
breeze. Best line of the week was Chesney to Betty when he
tried to get a drink in the Rovers. "I knew you when you were in
short trousers," Betty told him to which he replied: "You knew Ken
Barlow when he was in short trousers!"
Over at
the factory, Maria walks out in a huff after slapping Carla across
the chops when she finds out that Frank Foster's bought into
Underworld. Maria told Connor and Foster where to stick their
gusset stitches. She even rang the cops to report Frank for the
attempted rape too. Go Mar-ee-ah, go Mar-ee-ah.
Jim's
banged up in the Big House, so he is, with breeze block walls and
memories of Elizabeth to keep him warm through the night. Liz
decides to leg it, there's nowt to stay for not now with Jim gone
and no half-decent fellas on the radar. She tells Steve and
Becky she'll close up the bar and after they've gone to bed, she
clears up the glasses one last time while a montage of voices play
around the bar. It was done quite movingly. There was Alec Gilroy
giving Liz her first job at the Rovers, there was Bet Lynch giving
her fashion advice (neck line lower, hem line higher), there was
Jim, and all the voices were a mix of soothing, caressing, arguing,
flirting. And then she locked up and legged it in a cab, leaving a
letter for Steve, a letter for Jim and a letter for little Amy. And
with that Liz McDonald, her with roots as dark as your soul, left
Corrie ? for good?
Meanwhile, the war of the Websters continues when Sally
takes out an injunction against Kev preventing him access to his
lottery winnings. There's a court hearing where the injunction's
overturned ? Kevin wins, Sally loses ? but desperate to get his
missus back Kevin gives Sally a cheque for the whole amount later,
telling her he wants her back, loves her and always will.
Sally tells Kevin to stick his cheque and do one.
And
finally this week, Roy's mum Sylvia gets her feet under the table at
Roy's Rolls caf?. She also gets her mighty frame behind the
counter when she helps out a frantic Roy who's having a busy day and
needs a spare pair of hands. "Hmm? you don't look like the
salad type," she muses to Tyrone when he pops in for a pie and
chips. Hayley offers her mum-in-law a lift home to her nursing
home where she lives and although Sylvia isn't too keen on getting
in the Woody, "It looks like summat you wind up!" Hayley drives her
home. However, the nursing home is rather down at heel and not
the sort of place you'd want a relative living, if you had a say in
such things and so Hayley alerts Roy when she gets back home.
And
that's just about that for this week.
This
week's writers were Carmel Morgan, Mark Burt, John Kerr, Damon
Rochefort and Debbie Oates. Find out more about the Coronation
Street writing team at:
http://coronationstreetupdates.blogspot.com/2008/11/exclusive-all-current-corrie-writers.html
Glenda
Young
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